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Show Miscellany Jack London Tells of Rebel Army. Never on the warpath have I encountered en-countered a bunch of warriors so harum-scarum, so happy-go-lucky, so brimming over with good food and high spirits as in Tampico. Every one was mounted. Every horse was stolen. On the horses were the brands of every ranch and hacienda from the Rio Grande to the Panuco. Occasionally there wa.s a grizzled oldster. But the big percentage was youthful. There were boys of ten, eleven and twelve, magnificently and monstrously spurred, astride lifted broncos, with pictures of saints in their sombreros . and lood daggers and Bowie knives in their leggings, leg-gings, with automatics and revolvers at their hips, bewaisted and beshouldered with belts and bandoliers of cartridges, and with the inevitable rifle apross their saddle pommels. And there were women, young women all. mere eolda-deras eolda-deras as well as amazons, the former skirted and on side-saddles- the latter trousered and cross-saddred, and all of them wickedly armed like their mate comrades, and none of tliem married. When a soldadera comes along I should not like to be a stray chicken on the line of march nor a wounded enemy on the field of battle. Crossing the Panuco to the south bank on a barge, I tried to take t lie j picture of a coy and skirted solda-1 solda-1 dera. But ail was vain until I won i the good graces of the lieutenant colonel by snapping him and his fellow officers. They Were so delighted that all that they possessed was mine, and the soldadera was commanded to face the camera. The proud colonel even interrupted proceedings in order to decorate the soldadera with his own cartridge belt, knife and revolver. She was young, strong, uncorseted", cotton-frocked.'all cotton-frocked.'all Indiau, and she had ridden, as I learned, for two years with the revolutionists. She vame from far in the north, and her near goal was the City of Mexico. Ashore on the south bank, endeavoring endeavor-ing to catch two or three of the rebels with my camera, I suffered from au embarrassment of riches. All the soldiers sol-diers crowded into the immediate foreground fore-ground there were half a thousand of them and my Ions was not wide-angled. wide-angled. In twos aud threes they struck the most bloodthirsty attitudes, and I could only escape them bv patiently faking a pressure of the bulb and rolling roll-ing on of tho film. They were as proud of peacocks, as excitable and naive as children. Just as I pressed the bulb on a long row of them on horseback, one of them, beside himself with too much valor, accidontallv discharged his rifle. His fellows laughed at him. His officers did not even frown. It was too common an occurrence. They were merely s k v I a r k i n g b oy s who ha d exchanged ex-changed the tedium of a day 's work for a year-long picnic. Picnic was what it was. with a horse to ride, a peso and a hal f a day. good grub, a chance to loot, and, best ot all, a chance to shoot their fellow men, which last is the biggest game hunting that ever falls to the lot of man. Through the fires of sunset men, women and small boys they rode up the winding trail in single file and disappeared south on the road to the City of Mexico, their hearts high with the hope that they might overtake and terminate the lives of some of the unfortunate, lim )ing poor devils of federals lagging behind the beaten armv of Zaragoza. Gfllicr 's Weekly. |